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Walrus80
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March 8, 2020
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Help with grids

  • March 8, 2020
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Hi, 

 

Sorry for what is probably a stupid question, but I cannot understand snapping to grids and how it works. I've had an online chat with adobe for ober 2 hours and they haven't helped me at all.

 

Basically I want to create a grid that is 1cm spacing. I want everything to snap immediately to it. Especially when I draw rectangles or when I'm drawing straight lines.

 

So, from what I have understood, I went to preferences>grids and set document grid to have a gridline every 10mm with subdivision of 1. I then showed my document grid and turned on snapping. This doesn't work and I can still draw rectangles between gridlines and drag them to places inbetween griedlines.

 

I also tried disabling all the smart guide options that it suggested on one forum, this hasn't solved it.

 

Changing something called snap to zone to 3 seems to get me closer but still isn't quite exact.

 

I'm not sure what the guides in back options do, but they seem to have no effect.

 

Whatever I do it doesn't seem to achieve my goal.

 

In an ideal world, I'd have a grid of 1cm squares, and when i draw anything, or move anything at all, it will only snap to these squares. I know you can't make subdivisions 0, so it will always snap in between it seems, but when I draw a straight line it seems I can still make it snap to areas other than the grid lines or half way inbetween them

 

Hope this makes some sort of sense.

 

Any help would be really apprecaited

 

Thanks

 

 

    Correct answer Barb Binder

    Hi Chris:

     

    The snap-to zone controls how close you need to be to a grid or guide to automatically snap to it. I have to go teach an InDesign class, but setting the snap to zone to 36 px (the max) worked perfectly with lines on your grid size. A smaller number may also work, but I can't try that until later today.

     

    ~Barb

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    suezann_8802
    Participant
    January 15, 2025

    that is good and not good

    Barb Binder
    Community Expert
    Barb BinderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 9, 2020

    Hi Chris:

     

    The snap-to zone controls how close you need to be to a grid or guide to automatically snap to it. I have to go teach an InDesign class, but setting the snap to zone to 36 px (the max) worked perfectly with lines on your grid size. A smaller number may also work, but I can't try that until later today.

     

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 8, 2020

    In an ideal world, I'd have a grid of 1cm squares, and when i draw anything, or move anything at all, it will only snap to these squares.

    So how about defining a grid of 10 cm, with 10 subdivisions, and then set the snap to zone to something larger, like 20 px? With those settings, no matter how sloppy I am, my objects are snapping to the grid.

     

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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      Walrus80Author
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      March 9, 2020

      Thanks so much for your reply barb. It seems to work great for rectangles, just not the line tool. 

       

      The line took seems to almost snap if you're close to a grid point, but is easy to click randomly and it not snap. Is there a way to correct this?

       

      Also, please could you give me a simple explanation of what the snap to zone is all about and how you know what to set it to?

       

      Thanks again, really appreciate it

       

      Cheers

       

      Chris

       

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/cw60zrldafjzqm6/grid.mov?dl=0 

       

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